isds-research

82 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills (GitHub) · research · 951 stars · scanned at commit f9f28cd

Compliant, retrieval-grounded research over investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) awards and decisions. Use when the user asks about ICSID / investment-treaty arbitration cases, awards, or doctrines (fair and equitable treatment, expropriation, jurisdiction, costs, annulment, etc.) and wants answers grounded in the actual document text with pinpoint citations. Identifies the correct document on the case page, confirms it against the PDF's own first pages, retrieves primary documents on deman…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 6 places.

skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/README.md, line 45pip install requests pdfplumber openpyxl
skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/scripts/fetch_icsid_award.py, line 41Requires: requests, pdfplumber -> pip install requests pdfplumber
skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/scripts/fetch_icsid_award.py, line 63sys.exit("Missing dependency: pip install pdfplumber")

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skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/scripts/fetch_icsid_award.py, line 493print(f"dep {mod:<13}: WARN missing - {note}; pip install {mod}")
skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/scripts/fetch_icsid_award.py, line 496print(f"dep {mod:<13}: FAIL missing - {note}; pip install {mod}")
skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/scripts/query_unctad_excel.py, line 35sys.exit("ERROR: openpyxl is required (pip install openpyxl).")

Connects to the internet

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 7 places.

skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/SKILL.md, line 943. **No JS-capable render available?** Supplement with ICSID's own live case database for the ICSID subset (server-rendered), and/or targeted `WebSearch` — but
skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/SKILL.md, line 1492. **Bounded-set comparisons** ("compare how X, Y and Z treat topic A") — fully answerable *within the named set*, and the answer may rely on those cases alone.
skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/scripts/fetch_icsid_award.py, line 189r = requests.get(url, headers=HEADERS, timeout=60, **kw)

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skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/scripts/fetch_icsid_award.py, line 508r = requests.get(url, headers={**HEADERS, "Range": "bytes=0-2047"},
skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/scripts/query_unctad_excel.py, line 304import urllib.request
skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/scripts/query_unctad_excel.py, line 305req = urllib.request.Request(FRESHNESS_URL, headers={
skills/isds-research-cameron-russell/scripts/query_unctad_excel.py, line 307html = urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=15).read().decode("utf-8", "replace")

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'isds-research' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'isds-research' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named isds-research already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'f9f28cdccbeb98bbdde010042ea9f525ca427c72' -- 'skills/isds-research-cameron-russell' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/isds-research-cameron-russell' ~/.agents/skills/'isds-research' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'isds-research' ~/.claude/skills/'isds-research' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-08	`f9f28cd`	82
2026-11-07	`f9f28cd`	82